Resources for Krita.

Inking Brush Pack

As noted before on the Krita forums, one of the first things I look for in a image editing program is nice inking brushes. Krita’s defaults were too aliased for me, so I attempted to make better anti-aliased brushes, which invite to expression.

The brushes are based on realworld inking equipment, such as brushes, nibs, steel nibs and fineliners.

The package contains:

inking_brush

A pressure sensitive pixelbrush, fine tuned to have sharp anti-aliasing on 100% view.

inking_dynamic_pen

Similar to the brush, however, this brush requires more pressure to get full size out of.

inking_dynamic_pen_small

Exactly the same as inking_dynamic_pen, but smaller in radius.

inking_dynamic_though

Similar to previous brushes, but thougher and smaller than the inking_dynamic_pen, resulting in a more even line.

inking_fine_big,inking_fine_mid,inking_fine_small

Samples of the dynamic though and the Fineliner-like brushes.

Pressure and speed sensitive pixel-brush with finetuned antialiasing. Each a slightly different radius.

inking_fine_tiny

A tiny-radius bursh with good anti-aliasing.

inking_doodle_brush

A colour smudge brush with pressure sensitivity for opacity and size.
Creates more gentle lines than the rest of the pack, good for digital painting.

The newest version of this pack sees updated icons to fit the new icon-standards.

The Candy Palette

Finally, the candy palette: A .gpl palette made up of 6 skin tone ramps, 5 hair colour ramps and 5 eye-colour ramps. and then a couple of generic colour ramps.

The initial idea was to create a palette created around a traditional colour-picking method: Hue-shifting toward blue while shifting to darker colours. The palette’s saturated colours make it almost candy-like, and is ideal for warm candy-like pictures, but also for semi-transparent and wash brushes where the saturation dims a lot.

5 thoughts on “Resources for Krita.”

one thing i always found very useful for inking is the ability to slow down the stroke, while also having some control of it’s thickness based on velocity and pressure.
In inkscape the caligraphy tool has two very useful values:
-mass (slow down/ stabilization of stroke)
– thinning (makes the stroke thinner or thicker based on the velocity)

The Krita 2.8 alpha has a very similar feature(weighted smoothing), in the tool options panel, and with earlier versions, you can use the dynamic line tool, if you put the drag high and the mass low. Unlike Mypaint this isn’t brush bound.

I’ve developed an inking hand, so I don’t really it, and I find it actually holds me back due to being finicky for tiny strokes. But if you like it, those are your options.